Is 2G service still available?

India, one of the biggest markets for telecom services with more than a billion customers still has millions of people users 2G network for communication purposes . 2G is not fit for internet browsing, but only voice calling and SMS.

As that looks to be 15 years it seems 2G would need to be around until at least 2030 , to achieve an economic payback. With the announcements from DCMS on Dec 8th 2021 the future of this major IoT solution has been clarified.9 Ara 2021

Most of America’s largest carriers have already shuttered their 2G service or plan to soon : AT&T stopped servicing its 2G network back in 2017. Verizon Wireless phased out its 2G CDMA network at the end of 2020. Sprint sunsetted their 2G CDMA network in December of 2021.